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Paul Wheaton, The Duke of Permaculture, is an author, producer, certified advanced master gardener, and owner of. He has created hundreds of youtube videos, hundreds of podcasts, multiple DVDs, and written dozens of articles and a book. As the lead mad scientist at Wheaton Labs, he's conducted experiments resulting in rocket stoves and ovens, massive earthworks, solar dehydrators and much more.
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It is all streaming.  Like netflix.
6 days ago



4 HD movies + 4 PDF plan sets

Build useful, beautiful things with logs, stone, and traditional skills. Explore roundwood carpentry and dry-stack masonry through projects from the Low Tech Laboratory collection, created at the Permaculture Technology Jamboree at Wheaton Labs.

4 hours 20 minutes of movies • 141 pages of plans
Total individual value: $94.91
Plus a bonus grape arbor joinery animation!



THE MOVIES

1. Log Picnic Table 3.0
HD video • 1 hour 28 minutes • Individual price: $10.00



Join Kyle Alister for the complete construction of a substantial outdoor picnic table made from naturally fallen logs. See how traditional roundwood joinery holds the table together without nails, screws, or glue.

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2. Moon Gate
HD video • 32 minutes • Individual price: $9.95



Follow Tim Lanese and the PTJ crew as they build a circular stone gateway using dry-stack masonry. Watch the process unfold as carefully placed stones form a garden entrance without mortar or adhesives.

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3. Giant Log Stairs
HD video • 1 hour 30 minutes • Individual price: $10.00



Watch Mike Haasl and students turn locally harvested logs into an outdoor hillside staircase. Follow the complete build and explore roundwood carpentry that uses wood joinery instead of metal fasteners or glue.

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4. Grape Arbor
HD video • 50 minutes • Individual price: $10.00



Explore the construction of a giant roundwood grape arbor with Beau Davidson. From scale-model experiments to full-size joinery, discover the design decisions behind gravity-locked dovetail joints and a structure intended to provide shade and grapes.

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THE PLANS

5. Roundwood Shaving Horse Plans
PDF plans • 34 pages • Individual price: $9.99



A step-by-step guide to the roundwood shaving horse designed by Mike Haasl and built at PTJ 2022. Follow the design through 3D illustrations as you plan a useful addition to your woodworking setup.

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6. Log Picnic Table 3.0 Plans
PDF plans • 32 pages • Individual price: $14.99



Explore the all-wood picnic table designed by Kyle Alister and Paul Wheaton. These illustrated plans show a design that uses precise joinery and gravity to hold massive log components together without screws, nails, or glue.

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7. Moon Gate Plans
PDF plans • 40 pages • Individual price: $14.99



Take a closer look at Tim Lanese's dry-stack moon gate design. These illustrated plans explore how stone placement, gravity, compression, and angular gravel work together in a circular gateway built without mortar.

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8. Giant Log Stairs Plans
PDF plans • 35 pages • Individual price: $14.99



Study the all-wood staircase designed by Mike Haasl and Paul Wheaton. These illustrated plans detail a design that combines large logs, precise joinery, and hardwood dowels without screws, nails, or glue.

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Eight resources, five projects, one low tech building collection.
Watch the builds, study the plans, and gather ideas for your next project.




1 week ago




Purchase all of the video from the first 3 years of Permaculture Voices. 117 hours 24 minutes and 31 seconds of permaculture goodness!

Blending the practical techniques and tactics found in workshops with the entrepreneurial spirit and opportunity of a business conference.

Now you can enjoy them all in the comfort of your own home, whenever you want!




A diverse group of creative and innovative doers in a variety of fields looking to share experiences, knowledge, connect, and create in ways that increase passion, purpose and profit. These doers came from a variety of fields both within and outside of permaculture. Each field has its own needs and yields. It is this edge that creates the opportunity for things to happen, and it is this opportunity that offers value to the attendees – how can you fill needs and utilize yields to create more value in your life.



All of your favorite speakers talking on a wide variety of subjects, all in one place! From Geoff Lawton and Allan Savory, to Darren Doherty, Paul Wheaton, Greg Judy and Jean-Martin Fortier - there's bound to be something for everyone.







List of Speakers at Permaculture Voices 1

Geoff Lawton

   - Permaculture Designers Manual in One Hour (Keynote)
   - Permaculture Earthworks
   - Permaculture & the Tipping Point (Keynote)
   - Reading the Permaculture Landscape

Willie Smits

   - Village Based Permaculture Approaches in Indonesia

Wilie Smits & Peter Hirst

   - Permaculture in a half million-acre forest concession in Indonesia

Toby Hemenway

   - Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable, and a Permaculture Solution
   - Backing Away from the Energy Cliff: A Permaculturists Guide to Thinking About Energy

Joel Salatin

   - Successional Success: Fields of Farmers
   - Staking Fiefdoms
   - Ballet in the Pasture

Allan Savory

   - Why Management Needs to be Holistic to Avert Tragedy
   - Livestock in New Agriculture

Paul Wheaton

   - Wood Stoves 2.0: The Latest in Rocket Mass Heaters
   - The Design of Intentional Community
   - Increasing the Velocity of Permaculture (Keynote)

Dr. Elaine Ingham

   - Soil: It’s All About Life
   - Building Soil Health (Keynote)

Jack Spirko
   - Building a Profitable Permaculture Business

Greg Judy

   - Profitable Methods Used to Heal the Land With Mob Grazing
   - Multi-Species Grazing on Leased Land

Mark Shepard

   - Restoration Agriculture: Designing Your Perennial Farm
   - Alleycropping and Silvopasture: Transitioning to Restoration Agriculture

Adam Klaus

   - Small Dairy Herds for Small Farms
   - Biodynamics for Better Farming

Larry Santoyo

   - Permaculture for Humanity: Moderating the Urgency of Urbanism
   - Permaculture for Humanity: The Economics of Sharing & Caring

Neil Bertrando

   - 3 Years and 1 Acre in the High Desert

Nadia Lawton

   - Working with Traditional Communities from a Woman’s Perspective

Rob Avis

   - Lessons & Learnings: Starting a Permaculture-Based Business

Sarah Aubrey

   - Is There Really Any Grant Money Out There?

Valerie Loew

   - Edible HOAs. Want to plant edibles and live in peace with your HOA?

Ryan Harb & Bill Bean

   - Building Actionable Plans for Your Permaculture Initiatives

Rishi Kumar

   - Advance Suburban Permaculture

Philip Rutter

   - Plant Trees, But Not Just Any Tree

Peter Hirst

   - Biochar Basics

Peter Ash

   - Rehabilitating Polluted Ecosystems with Compost

Paul Greive

   - Guerrilla Marketing Field Guide for Small Farms

Patricia Foreman

   - Why Chickens Are the Enablers and Heroes of Permaculture Design and Healthy Sustainability

Owen Hablutzel

   - Permaculture Horizons: Dynamic Design for the Anthropocene
   - Drought Resilience for the Twenty-First Century

Michael Gold

   - Chestnut: Building a Perennial Specialty Crop Industry from Scratch

Joseph Simcox

   - Ecological Adaptation Strategy

John Roulac

   - Can Business be a Tool for Real Change?

John Kitsteiner

   - Permaculture: The Missing Key to Health

Jane Higginson

   - Attracting Native Pollinators to Your Permaculture System

Fraser Bliss

   - Life’s Too Short for 9-to-5: How to Find Your Niche and Start or Grow Your Own Business

Doniga Markegard

   - Wildlife, Ranching, Carbon and Policy: Creating Lasting Change

David Eggleton & Stephen Kent

   - Learning for Life

Curtis Stone

   - SPIN Farming

Craig Sponholtz

   - Reversing Desertification With Sticks, Rocks, and Ancient Wisdom
   - Harvesting Water by Healing Watersheds

Chris Arnold

   - Reinventing Fast Food: Better Ingredients from More Sustainable Sources

Adam Brock

   - Toward a Pattern Language of Invisible Structures
   - Greening the Food Desert: Urban Permaculture in Denver

Paul Kearsley

   - Conceptual Illustration for Permaculture



List of Speakers at Permaculture Voices 2

Stefan Sobkowiak

  - A Permaculture Orchard for YOUR Climate Zone
  - Sell What You Grow at Retail Prices Without Harvesting

Peter McCoy

  - Fungi Are the Missing Function

Willie Smits

  - interview

Dr. Elaine Ingham

  - Soils Intensive Workshop

Mark Shepard

  - Managing Water on Your Farm

Larry Santoyo

  - Permaculture for Humanity & Ecology of Culture
  - Permaculture for Humanity: Beyond Buildings and Food

Paul Wheaton

  - Building a Better World One Permaculture Brick at a Time

Neal Spackman

  - Culture As Climate: A Model for Reading Social Landscapes

Jack Spirko

  - Building a Successful Plant Propagation Business

Grant Schultz

  - Fruit, Nuts, and Livestock: Creating a Permaculture Silvopasture
  - Tools and Technology for Permaculture Homesteads

Curtis Stone

  - The 10 Essentials to Profitable Urban Farming

Curtis Stone & Jean-Martin Fortier

  - Answer Small Scale Farm Questions

Peter Allen

  - Savanna Gardens: Regenerating the Ultimate Human Ecosystem
  - Grazing the Savanna: Lessons from New Forest and Mastodon Valley Farms

Troy Martz

  - Alternative Energy for Permaculturists

Stuart Muir Wilson

  - Action to End Poverty
  - Permatecture: PERMAculture + archiTECTURE

Stephanie Jo Kent & David Eggleton

  - Learning, The Permaculture Way

Peter Allen & Grant Schultz

  - Starting a Permaculture Farm From Scratch

Paul Greive

  - Gasoline on the Fire: Pastured Poultry & Guerilla Farm Marketing

Meg Grzeskiewicz

  - Shifting the Workload to Your Livestock
  - Business Strategies for Young and Beginning Farmers

Mary Matava

  - Local Organics Improving Local Soils

John Pugliano

  - Lessons From ValueyAdded Cottage Businesses to Help You Take the Next Step

Hilary Bromberg & Marty McDonald

  - Permaculture Propaganda: A Crash Course in Marketing

Erika Block

  - Relinking the Food Chain: Collaborative Distribution Models

Erik Ohlsen

  - Permaculture Contracting: Ecologically Regenerative, Economically Viable

Dan Halsey

  - Agro-Ecosystems Strategy and Building Ecologically Supported Plant Guilds

Colin Seis

  - Pasture Cropping: Profitable Regenerative Agriculture

Bill Bean

  - Building Quick, Convincing Business Plans

Bruce Maynard

  - The Everlasting Grassland Granary
  - Animals Behaving at Their Beset

Ben Kotnik

  - Packing Permaculture Principles Into Smaller Spaces

Ben Falk

  - 10 Years in a Cold Climate: Resilience & Regeneration: Principles in Practice

Allan Savory

  - What is Holistic Management?

Adam Klaus

  - Dairy Farming: The Beautiful Way
  - Starting Your Own Raw Mild Dairy

Dr. Elaine Ingham

  - Compost Tea Extracts: Practical Applications

Ken Surritte
  - Water is Life

Steve Gabriel

  - Forest Farming: Seeing the Forest for More Than Just the Trees

Phil Rutter

  - Crowd-Sourcing a New Crop: Hybrid Hazel Nuts and More

Luke Callahan

  - The 7 Steps to Starting Your Profitable Permaculture Business

Byron Joel

  - Mediterranean Climate Regions

Howard Johns

  - Your Guide to Making It Happen

Joseph Simcox

  - The American Native Peoples and Their Food Systems

Michael Jordan

  - There is More Than Honey in That Hive





List of Speakers at Permaculture Voices 3

Greg Judy

  - Successful Implementation Using High Density Planned Grazing
  - The Economics for Leasing Land: How to Find and Develop it for Maximum Income

Grant Schultz

  - Making Permaculture Pay: Proven Business Blueprints

Darren Doherty & Lisa Heenan

  - Startup Case Studies: Regrarians' Clients who are Making Their Way
  - Broadacre Agroforestry: A Whole of Industry Approach Session 2
  - Broadacre Agroforestry: A Whole of Industry Approach Session 1

Jack Spirko

  - Ducks for Fun, Profit, and Land Development
  - Taking Regenerative Agriculture Forward

Erik Ohlsen

  - Designing a Regenerative Economy with People Guilds
  - Running a Successful Permaculture Contracting Business

Curtis Stone

  - $80,000 on a Quarter Acre
  - Crunching Numbers to Crush Your Season

Daniel Brisebois

  - Integrating Commercial Seed Production Into the Market Garden
  - Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers

Gregory Landua

  - 8 Forms of Captital Through Regenerative Cacao - Gregory Landua

Taylor Walker

  - Perennial Vegetables for Profit

Chris Thoreau

  - Ensuring Product Integrity
  - Microgreens Economics: Building and Maintaining a Profitable Business

Eliza Greenman

  - A New Fruit Culture

Jean-Martin Fortier & J Pinault

  - Introducing Permaculture Principles into a Profitable Market Garden
  - Profitable Small-Scale Farming: How Design Sets the Stage for Success

Erin Axelrod

  - Realizing the Regenerative Economy

Mary Beth Storjohann

  - Personal Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs

Christian Shearer & Gregory Landua

  - Regenerative Supply: Breaking the Chains

Christian Shearer, Ethan Soloviev, Gregory Landua, & Mary Johnson

  - Regenerative Business Model Design

Darby Simpson

  - arm Marketing and Business Planning: Real World Proven Strategies








1 week ago
The asian pear tree had about 20 pears last year.  Stunning.   It had over a hundred blossoms this year, and then a late frost ...  now there are 3 pears left.  

Dibs!

The sedum is just starting to bloom.  In a few days it will be covered by dozens of different kinds of pollinators
We currently don't have chickens.  13 years without chickens.  

I don't want to do coop and run.  I think that is super awful for chickens.  I feel like if you are going to do this, you might as well just buy eggs at the store.  

I want to do something that is 40x better than the best store bought eggs.

i want to avoid using anything galvanized
   - except right next to the county road

i want to avoid using electric fence
   - far too often i have seen good people use it wrong
   - it is a psycological barrier. thus a downer to have around
   - when good people get zapped a few times, it leaves a big negative

i want the chickens to reject organic chicken feed
   - why are the ingredients for organic chicken feed not sold as human feed
   - i want to eat eggs that are 40x better than the best store bought eggs
       o 20% organic matter instead of 2%
       o rich soil, polyculture, lots of bugs, lots of jungle

paddock shift



Thanks for trying Samantha.  Kinda seems like we would want 4 gigs on the way down and 4 on the way back.  Over the next week we might get two people showing interest, but that ain't enough.  

As much as i like the idea of a fun trip like you suggested, I think i will accomplish a lot more by staying home!